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‘‘Eco-plastic bags‘‘ are about to get greener with a new process that replaces petrol derivatives with sunflower oil. Edie information service reports the new material will make its entry just as vegetable-derived plastic market is set to rocket, with both France and Italy soon to ban single-use non-biodegradable bags. "Supply …

World Waste Technologies, Inc has announced it has filed a provisional patent covering an energy self sufficient process for the treatment of municipal solid waste (MSW) into the production of mixed alcohols (including ethanol) through a synthetic gas and catalyst process. The process also includes the co-generation of renewable electricity …

A new UN-led alliance will work out global scrapping guidelines to protect the environment from mountains of electronic trash such as computers, phones and televisions, the group said on Tuesday. Reuters reports that three UN agencies, 16 firms including Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and Philips, several government bodies and universities said they …

Every three months a helicopter flies over Hong Kong‘‘s restricted border region near Shenzhen, the special economic zone in China‘‘s southern Guangdong province. Its purpose is not to survey the dramatic landscape of the closed area – which after five decades of enforced isolation has evolved into one of south …

Each year, in the European Union alone, 1.3 billion tonnes of waste are thrown away, some 40 million tonnes of it being hazardous. Reducing household waste has become an area of prime concern for national governments, policy makers and local communities. Irish researchers have recently used an innovative approach to …

O presente trabalho, que faz parte de uma pesquisa de conclusão de curso, objetivou estimar a quantidade de resíduos sólidos urbanos coletados em Fortaleza e destinados ao Aterro Sanitário de Caucaia (Ceará). Para tanto, realizou-se revisão bibliográfica e documental e pesquisa de campo para levantamento de dados e informações junto …

The move comes in a joint initiative involving representatives from all areas of the retail sector and in response to a concerted call for action from Environment ministers in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. They have agreed to support the campaign together with the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and …

A stream of protests has hit India‘‘s Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) for sanctioning municipal waste-to-energy (MWTE) projects that are collapsing under an avalanche of incombustible effluent, according to IPS-Inter Press Service, cited in Power Engineering International. "The technology of converting waste to energy from purely organic wastes …

In light of a significant increase in the amount of leftovers during the one-week Chinese New Year holiday, the Environment Protection Administration (EPA) urged the public to adopt an environmentally friendly "green diet." The China Post reports that leftovers account for around a quarter of the garbage generated by the …

Australia will be the first country in the world to ban traditional incandescent light bulbs, says Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Globe-Net reports that according to the plan, yellow incandescent bulbs will be replaced by more efficient compact fluorescent bulbs by 2009. "By that stage you simply won‘‘t be able to …